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Let’s Play Hardball

February 16, 2016 By publius 32 Comments

For Democrats and progressives, it is critically important that President Obama's nominee to succeed the late Justice Scalia becomes the next Supreme Court Justice. Unless...wait for it...unless President Clinton's or President Sanders' … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: black lives matter, obama, scalia, scotus

Fox News On June 26th, 2015, Oh How Odd It All Seems

June 26, 2015 By steven-j-gulitti Leave a Comment

One can only scratch one's head when it comes to the incredulous nature of the Fox News Network. On a day as momentous, after a week as momentous as this, the O'Rielly Factor's nightly feature is on global terror, completely ignoring … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: fox-news, O'Rielly Factor, same-sex-marriage, scotus

The SCOTUS Decisions Hammer Conservative Movement

June 26, 2015 By steven-j-gulitti 9 Comments

The Court this week has delivered a series of devastating blows to America’s conservative movement with their second decision affirming the constitutionality of Obamacare, today’s decision on same sex marriage along with another decision on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: conservative movement, gay-rights, obamacare, same-sex-marriage, scotus

Hoosiers, Razorbacks, Loons and Anti-Gay Laws

April 1, 2015 By massmarrier 1 Comment

The hounds are not going to stop yelping, snarling and nipping. What we've seen in milder versions elsewhere and recently in extreme ones Indiana and Arkansas will continue. They are in the end expressions of the same anti-gay craziness … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: arkansas, citizens-united, gay-rights, Hobby Lobby, indiana, lgbt, Pence, religion, RFRA, scotus

WSJ: “An Obamacare Plan Beats No Plan”

March 21, 2015 By joeltpatterson Leave a Comment

As spring arrives, when we turn to the Opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, we find that Hell hath frozen over... An Obamacare Plan Beats No Plan The sudden withdrawal of the subsidies could put private insurance markets in as many … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: healthcare, obamacare, scotus

GLAD’s Head Talks Marriage News

October 14, 2014 By massmarrier Leave a Comment

It's hard to avoid the word play that GLAD is glad. Today's Left Ahead show with Gary Buseck was pretty jolly. He is the legal director and interim executive director of Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders. Looking at the huge, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: Buseck, circuit courts, gay-marriage, ginsburg, glad, lgbt, massachusetts, same-sex-marriage, scotus, supreme-court, supreme-judicial-court, utah

All’s Not Lost After McCutcheon

April 8, 2014 By massmarrier 5 Comments

The Roberts version of the SCOTUS slammed good-government types hard, first with Citizens United and now with McCutcheon v. FEC. Today theSunlight Foundation’s Lisa Rosenberg (government-affairs consultant) gave me some perspective…and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: Breyer, campaign-finance, citizens-united, corruption, donors, fec, McCutcheon, Roberts, rosenberg, scotus, sunlight-foundation

Can a Repeal of Obamacare Actually Help Obama in November?

March 26, 2012 By PaulHeroux Leave a Comment

This week the SCOTUS will decide on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordability Care Act of 2009 (AKA - Obamacare). This may be President Obama's primary legislative achievement. Conventional wisdom says that if the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2012-election, obama, obamacare, scotus

Justice Thomas ignores law

January 23, 2011 By kirth 27 Comments

Thomas appears to think that the law does not apply to him, for some reason. The Supreme Court is "the only judicial body in the country that is not governed by a set of judicial ethical rules," Gillers said. A spokesman for the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: clarence-thomas, heritage-foundation, scotus

Guns Are People, Too

June 28, 2010 By shiltone 5 Comments

The U.S. Supreme Court, expected to rule narrowly on whether the 2nd Amendment precludes states and municipalities from enacting gun control laws, instead -- by the usual 5-4 majority -- swept away more than a century of precedent and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2nd-amendment, constitutional-issues, gun-control, scotus, supreme-court

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Look, people confused Charlie Baker "not being Donald Trump" with "trustworthy verging on infallible."

Well gosh that was never true, to say the least. #StockholmSyndrome

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👀 https://twitter.com/bill_shaner/status/1365100351502880770

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25 Feb

“Utter breakdown ... *it’s just not okay*” [emphasis original]

Cindy Friedman@CindyFriedmanMA

Earlier, I spoke at the #MACOVIDOversight hearing and voiced my concerns & the concerns of my colleagues and constituents. I then asked @MassGovernor what I believe was a straightforward question...and received a not-so-straightforward response.

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25 Feb

In 2014, I was a clerk for the ME legislature's enviro committee and I'm flabbergasted by the arguments by progressive Reps (many of whom I respect) against making committee votes and testimony public. /1 #mapoli @act_on_mass @byChrisVan @statehousenews
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What conditions accounts for this?

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